[bestclimb]

Originally Posted by songman

Here's the quote:

(bestclimbs post)

He's not saying you have to keep right, he's saying you have to either:

1) Move off the road or

2) Speed up to the speed of the approaching nednecks.


Happy now? "Pull over" means "pull off the road", not "keep right (slowest lane)". And since, again, you should keep right anyway and in all circumstances, this should speak for itself. I suspect that, as a speed freak who is unlikely to obey any road conventions, you don't respect this convention and hence your misunderstanding.

Originally Posted by songman

This is not about pulling over to the right, it's about pulling off the carriageway. The number of lanes is irrelevant. You misunderstood both the poster above and myself in responding, who were both referring to pulling off the highway, and not just pulling right. Pulling (and driving) right is standard good behaviour - it doesn't need saying. Pulling off the highway is another thing entirely, and an absurd requirement - as I and I'm sure many others see it - when doing potentially barely under the maximum limit, and when the redneck racers behind can simply overtake if they're that desperate to indulge their redneck delinquencies, and when it might in itself put you in breach of the maximum limit! It's lunacy..

Correctish if the road is 1 lane each way and you get 5 cars stacked up you need to use a pull off or section of wide shoulder to let the train of cars pass.

When traveling barely under the limit it is really not an issue. If traveling 10 under it may be an issue.

Passing lane means the road is typically undivided 1 lane each way. and a
second lane for one or both directions is there temporarily.

Pull out is a place designed for a vehicle to exit the road way.

This law is usually implemented for areas where passing is not an option due to terrain or congestion makes passing not an option. The reason the law was implemented is that we had a substantial number of people trying to pass slow moving vehicles when it was very unsafe resulting in numerous head on collisions. It may not be the best solution but it does work to reduce the number of accidents.

for 2 lanes each way this law is not a requirement because the other lane is available.

And come on up to Alaska. Once you get out of Anchorage and Wasilla areas most of us are quite laid back and friendly.